Captain Aggravated @ captain_aggravated @sh.itjust.works

Linux gamer, retired aviator, profanity enthusiast

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I made a mistake, I bought a jeep.

I'm convinced it isn't.

I don't know if it was a chain or a one-off, but a strip mall not far from where I grew up opened a frozen custard stall called Custard's Last Stand. I went in there exactly once. They served me a waffle cone full of a grey substance that resembled drywall plaster. It tasted alright but it needed some sprinkles or something.

Or, they knew what they were doing.

Well let's start off with just basic things like hobbies and interests. Let's LaForge this. Computer: run speed dating simulation three gamma. Add a typical bachelorette, approximately 35 years old, American, with a personality, hobbies and interests typical of her demographics. Run program. Alright, I'm going to go strike up a conversation with her about the heavy modular frame production line I built in Satisfactory, we'll see how she responds. I bet I'll respond similarly to listening her talk about the pointless knickknacks she bought at a thrift store or yoga class or whatever.

Like, you should enjoy sitting on the couch and watching TV with your partner, right? Okay, I'm about to binge watch Clickspring's clockmaking playlist again. That's three solid hours of a guy building a clock from scratch out of plate brass. He stops to build a custom wheel depthing tool. He experiments with different lapping plates for polishing the heads of screws, spoiler: Tin is better than MDF. Find me a woman that would actually enjoy watching this with me any more than I would enjoy watching some drag queen show with her.

I've got maybe 40 years left on this planet, I've reserved not a second for pretending to care about antiquing or pilates class, I'm sure there are few women on the planet who are interested in, say, hand plane sharpening. So why bother each other?

Beyond that, my "Never putting up with that again" list has grown quite long. Shit like being called "non-communicative" by little miss "If you don't know what's wrong, I'm definitely not going to tell you."

So...what's there to like, exactly?

pretty okay, just had a shower and I'm chilling on the couch with my cat. She is steadily purring. comfort level is around a 7.8, maybe 7.9.

I bought HL1's GOTY edition when it came out.

writing headlines like that should earn a nice lengthy face tazing.

The Rotax engines use digital CDI ignition that is independent if the airframe electrical system, and from each other. I've never seen one fail.

Take a lesson from welding class: You release what you've got bottled up just right with a little spark and you get an intense yet precise flame. It's amazing what you can get done with skillful application of said flame.

If you buy a brand new Skyhawk here in the space year 2025, it will come with a newly made Lycoming IO-360 that requires 100LL. I think they're still working on eliminating leaded avgas, I think because the Trump regime hasn't noticed it yet.

I think Mattel makes better electric vehicles than Tesla.

I'd settle for "dies a 90 hour non-instrument rated private pilot flying the Beech Debonair he just bought VFR into IMC by slamming into a hillside trying to fly under a 300 foot ceiling."

But he wouldn't pass a 3rd class medical certificate, would he?

Yeah, I stopped dating when I realized I don't actually like women very much. Entering my sixth year of not even trying to find a woman and it's going pretty well.

My cat just finds the nearest big idiot to yell at. That's usually me.

JK Simmons was the objectively correct choice. 100% perfectly cast.

I mean, to any creature that weighs 3 pounds or less, he's right. If you're a field mouse a house cat is a terrifyingly effective predator.

More tuna are eaten by house cats than lions.

A grill should run on charcoal. It needs to get very hot and that's literally it.

There's a universe where I attach some electronic controller with a PID loop or something to a smoker, to maintain consistent temperatures via damper control. I'm not buying that off the shelf built into the machine though.

I honestly can't tell if it's rich fossil fuel execs getting their way so they don't have to undergo the agonizing inhuman cruel and unusual torture of shifting their business model a bit...or if it's just religious dogma at this point. Somebody who likes solar power insulted our fragile god emporer fuckboy so now it all has to be burned down.

General Aviation is still using magnetos. The typical GA airplane is hilariously primitive.

Shellac dissolves quite readily in alcohol at room temperature.